Beautiful timing

November 24th, 2011

Today has felt like a long day, it being the day of my grandfather’s funeral. There are several things I could talk about, but there’s one specific thing I feel I’d like to share with anyone who reads…

Something I love, but don’t witness very often, is when music I’m listening to seems to ‘connect’ with the outside world in a set of sometimes spine-tingling coincidences that result in real things happening in time to the music. My favourite, mot memorable example of this is when I was travelling to university as a student for the first time, and the music I was listening to seemed to match when the sun came in and out as my train sped through suburbia at dusk, passing through pockets of shadow and glorious evening-yellow sunlight. And today I feel I witnessed another of those lovely coincidences. Read the rest of this entry »